Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:04:17 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600
Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 405

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Friday 13 August 2004
 Number  405
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Subjects for today
 
1   perl and detaching : Dave Saville" <dave at deezee.org>
2  Re:  perl and detaching : John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
3  Re:  perl and detaching : Henry Sobotka <sobotka at axess.com>


**= Email   1 ==========================**

Date:  Thu, 12 Aug 2004 19:33:38 +0100 (BST)
From:  "Dave Saville" <dave at deezee.org>
Subject:   perl and detaching

I think building perl from source with the build system has broken
OS2::Process

    use OS2::Process;
    $pid = system(P_PM+P_BACKGROUND, "epm.exe");

gives can't exec "5" no such file or directory.

See

    http://www.daimi.au.dk/Manuals/perl/os2/OS2/Process/Process.html

-- 
Regards

Dave Saville



**= Email   2 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:56:56 +0100
From:  John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
Subject:  Re:  perl and detaching

On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 07:33:38PM +0100, Dave Saville wrote:
> I think building perl from source with the build system has broken
> OS2::Process
> 
>     use OS2::Process;
>     $pid = system(P_PM+P_BACKGROUND, "epm.exe");
> 
> gives can't exec "5" no such file or directory.
> 
> See
> 
>     http://www.daimi.au.dk/Manuals/perl/os2/OS2/Process/Process.html


Which version of Perl is this?

I would have expected that one of the Perl tests would have checked for 
detaching...  I'm not sure what you are trying to do above but you can't 
detach a program like EPM anyway. Am I missing something?


 
> -- 
> Regards
> 
> Dave Saville
> 


-- 
John



**= Email   3 ==========================**

Date:  Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:57:54 -0400
From:  Henry Sobotka <sobotka at axess.com>
Subject:  Re:  perl and detaching

Dave Saville wrote:
> I think building perl from source with the build system has broken
> OS2::Process
> 
>     use OS2::Process;
>     $pid = system(P_PM+P_BACKGROUND, "epm.exe");
> 
> gives can't exec "5" no such file or directory.
> 
> See
> 
>     http://www.daimi.au.dk/Manuals/perl/os2/OS2/Process/Process.html
> 

Somewhere between 5.6.1 and 5.7.2 that example was changed to:

$pid = system(P_PM | P_BACKGROUND, "epm.exe");

(see perl/lib/[version]/os2/OS2/Process.pm)

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